Travel is

Travel is...

Change. It is one of the many interesting things I enjoy about travel, the change in scenery, opportunity to learn something new, see something different, meet new people, and share my experiences with others.

Some changes are easier to deal with than others and technology has sometimes been a hard sell as far as I'm concerned.

I recently bought a new cell phone and have mastered the texting thing, although I am still amazed that I can access the Internet on a phone not much bigger than a business card. I had another interesting technological moment the other day. I was at the doctor's office and while waiting for her, I finished the book I was reading. I only had one or two books left on my Kindle which I hadn't yet read, and none appealed to me. In her examining room (which obviously had wi-fi), I purchased two new mystery novels from Amazon, they were beamed to my Kindle in seconds and I almost immediately received notice on my cell phone that I'd purchased the two items.

Now the office no doubt contains hundreds of thousands of dollars of sophisticated medical equipment, but those two high-tech moments symbolized the changes in technology that I have come to enjoy. (Okay, I may not totally understand it all, but I do enjoy.)

It seems a fitting way to embrace the new decade, to embrace new technologies and new ways to look at things.

And they are always interesting.